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title: 'John Thomson on Ecclesiastical Troubles Within'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-11-16
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-john-thomson-on-ecclesiastical-troubles-within
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# John Thomson on Ecclesiastical Troubles Within

“Such is the woful Degeneracy and Corruption of human Nature, even in the Church herself, that if by the Mercy and Goodness of God, She be for a While freed from a persecuting Sword, She soon waxeth wanton, turns luxuriant, and becomes the Disturber of her own Peace; either by Error or Division, and commonly there is a Mixture of both together.” — [**John Thomson**](/authors/john-thomson), *The Doctrine of Convictions Set in a Clear Light* (1741), pp. 1–2